"There are times when breakfast seems the one thing worth getting up for ..."

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Source : Peter De Vries (1982). “Forever panting”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

Peter De Vries

#Morning Quotes #Breakfast Quotes

“If an art has for its function to represent manners and people, I do not see how it can avoid systematizing its sensibility to the extent of showing some figures much as MoliÃ¨re, for instance, did, as absurd or detestable.”
“I looked around and acknowledged that what you see around you is proof of what exists within you.”
“Poland nil, England nil, though England are now looking the better value for their nil.”
“When I was 17 years old, I put out an album while my mother was dying of cancer. That right there alone is a struggle. That's hard. That's tough for anybody.”
“Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.”
“Losing the Super Bowl is worse than death. You have to get up the next morning.”
“You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.”
“I always said I never wanted to write about love, but then I went and did that anyway.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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